Kanter, de, Iris (2021) It is surely what we actually do that matters, not why we do it. Bachelor thesis, Bachelor Godsdienstwetenschap.
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Abstract
Many scholars have, over the last decade or so, critiqued the explicit secular behaviour of many humanitarian organisations and the effects their secularism has had on religious people, both in the field and in other (humanitarian) organisations. Although much has improved over the last ten years due to these critiques, it has not been investigated why these humanitarian actors have adopted these secularisms. This thesis, then, aims to find that out through examining humanitarianism’s main principle of neutrality and its possible relationship with secularism. It will explore this not only through the broader discussions regarding the field of humanitarianism, but by investigating the International Committee of the Red Cross specifically. This thesis argues that secularity and neutrality are connected through deeply embedded binary worldviews of these humanitarian actors, which also makes their perceptions of the world highly divided which is particularly the case for the International Committee of the Red Cross. It might take secularism and neutrality to be rethought, especially within the contexts they are rooted from, for humanitarianism to move past these difficulties.
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| Degree programme: | Bachelor Godsdienstwetenschap | ||||||||||||
| Academic year: | 2020-2021 | ||||||||||||
| Date of delivery: | 03 Sep 2021 07:43 | ||||||||||||
| Last modified: | 03 Sep 2021 07:43 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/606 |
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